Afar may refer to:
- Afar people, ethnic group principally residing in Djibouti, Eritrea and Ethiopia
- Afar Insurgency, alternative name for the Djiboutian Civil War of November 1991-December 1994
- Afar Depression, a geological depression near the Horn of Africa
- Afar Region, territory in Ethiopia
- Afar language, one of the East Cushitic languages
- Afar Desert, desert in northern Ethiopia
- Afar Communications, Inc., a US based company with offices in Santa Barbara, California
- Afar Explorer, a US based company with interests in the Ogaden Basin of Ethiopia
- Afar Magazine, a US travel magazine, published in Phoenix AZ
- At, to, or from a great distance; far away
The acronym AFAR refers to the following: